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This is not a well designed quest, but thanks to getting the launch codes from the internet, I did it! And now I can just never deal with this quest again :P

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Game artifacts bring me joy.

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Avernus: The Importance of Dying - Part 1

Avernus: The Importance of Dying – Part 1

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Why Systems Matter

Okay. So I’m taking a break from my Gen Con 2018 posts to write about writing games. I’m currently working on a little pet project. After seeing the most recent Mission Impossible movie, I started thinking about how you would make a system to play an action movie game. Now, you can play an action movie in any system – you can play any story in any system if you try hard enough. But something…

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Gen Con 2018: Day 2 Part 2

Gen Con 2018: Day 2 Part 2

Okay, so I played in Hana Academy last year, and Kylene has played in the last two years, so this is one of those traditions for us now. This year was particularly good because almost everyone showed up to play! The premise of the game is that we are students at a school where… things are weird. (I call it magical-school-boy, but you can be any gender and it’s not an openly magic school.) The…

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Gen Con 2018: Day 2 - Part 1

Gen Con 2018: Day 2 – Part 1

On Day 2 things really started to pick up. After a so-so day 1, I was a little “meh” about things, but for some reason things on Day 2 just really… worked.

I think part of the success came from running something. I did Metaland, which is an almost-annual tradition at this point. I ran Metaland my first year, 2014, and then again in 2016. The premise is simple: I hand out blank character sheets…

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Gen Con 2018: Day 1 Part 2

After a successful Discworld game, Kylene and I bounced around for some food before splitting to different events. My next one was Brass & Steel: A Game of Steampunk Adventure. Right off the bat, I was intrigued by the system title. The adventure was about the expansion of trade into Japan, which is one of my favorite time periods. I find the transition from the Kamakura period into the Edo…

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Gen Con 2018: Day 1 Part 1

Gen Con 2018: Day 1 Part 1

First, let me say that this was basically the best Gen Con ever. Kylene and I had a massive amount of fun, and are extremely pleased with how our workshops ended up. We are already planning for next year ^___^

This year for my Gen Con I’ve decided to employ a “scoring” system of the events, which you’ll find at the bottom of this post. I’ll be scoring each event on the following topics:

System:

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Gen Con: Day 0

It’s like coming home.

I’ve been going to Gen Con since 2014, but I clearly remember the drive home after our first trip. I remember feeling loss – like I’d turned away from something important. I needed to play more…. Kylene, my wonderful partner in games, found us a group, and we got to play for a while. Then there were more groups… more cons… then LARP…. But nothing quite compares to stepping…

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Tropes vs Inspiration vs Sterotypes

There is nothing new under the sun.

Many GMs feel a strong drive to be original. <Scoff> Original? Things can not be original. All things come from something, and that’s what makes them important. Something with no context, something truly original, that comes from nothing and has never been seen before, cannot be. When one looks at all the originalbooks, movies, and TV shows, it’s hard to deny…

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Preparing to GM: Part 4 - Hosting

Preparing to GM: Part 4 – Hosting

When you are the GM, you are often also the host. It’s generally easier to run the game when you have all of your books and supplies on hand. It’s also better to host if you have players who are inconsistent – as the GM, you will definitely be there if the game is going to happen. So how does one host a game? Well, there is no “right” way, but there are pros and cons to various setups.

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Gender and Sexuality in your Game

Gender and Sexuality in your Game

Okay. Dang. This is a hard topic.

There are a few issues that can get us started, but there are people with PhD’s who struggle with this topic, so by no means is this a complete exploration of the topic. I’m just one little gamer in a big sea of games, who happens to think all people are people regardless of arbitrary assignments forces upon a society by a pragmatic and often under-informed few…

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Running at Cons: Part 2 – Con Game Dos and Don'ts

Running at Cons: Part 2 – Con Game Dos and Don’ts

Running at Con’s is very, very different from running a home game. Now, I’ve run a few con games, and I have played in a lot. There are some things that GMs should avoid at all costs, and things that are really awesome. This post is, by no means, comprehensive, but it is a good baseline for the Dos and Don’ts of running at a convention. Because I’m a dork, I’m gonna color code things like I’m…

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Running at Cons: Part 1 - Getting people to show up.

Running at Cons: Part 1 – Getting people to show up.

Okay. Cons. Running games at cons is hard. 100%. For those who don’t run games at conventions, you can’t really imagine the amount of stress that goes into it. What if no one shows? What if the players suck? Worse: what if only one of the players sucks and the rest are awesome but that one is ruining it for the rest of them? What if they don’t like it? What if they don’t like me? As a GM, I love…

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BFG Con: Day 3

I really meant to finish my BFG summary sooner, but things happen. Day three was my pure-fun day! I started off with Fallout themed GURPS! While the session was a little slow, it’s just a delightful system! The characters were pre-gens, and I loved the brief character summaries that we got. They were simple, but evocative. Mine was something to the effect of, “Lampshade doesn’t talk about where…

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BFG Con: Day 2 (I didn’t go to Day 1) So! Some family-friends organized the Big Frederick Gaming convention last weekend, and it was wonderful! This was my first time volunteering at a convention, so I got to do some things that I usually don't.